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The End of the World at the Edge of the Earth is a digital and film installation that explores the uncanny convergence of three facts specific to Argentina: the last growing glacier; the last living Lacanian practice; and the détournement byCarson and Yonemotoof a 1966 anti-happening by artist and psychoanalytic theorist Oscar Masotta. Masotta’s anti-happenings confronted the Argentine military tactic of posing “fake happenings” before their 1966 coups d'état. Defiant of political and avant-garde orthodoxies, Masotta’s work speaks to our current moment of “fake news” and pending coups d'états.